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Presented in an easy-to-understand way that is perfect for children, Chinese Brush Painting teaches the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy. For more than a thousand years, a traditional Chinese style of art-brush painting-has been used to make pictures that are more than just pictures. These are images that harness your imagination, and capture on paper the true spirit of an animal... or a landscape... or a tree. All you need is black paint, white...
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When Philip Hensher realized that he didn't know what one of his closest friend's handwriting looked like, he felt that something essential was missing from their friendship. It dawned on him that, having abandoned fountain pens for keyboards, we have lost one of the ways by which we come to recognize and know another person. The Missing Ink tells the story of this endangered art. Hensher reflects on what handwriting can tell us about personality...
83) Grandpa's scroll
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Lily and her grandpa are good pen pals, so when he dies and leaves behind a rice paper scroll he was painting for her, Lily finishes the scroll with help from her mother.
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Chicago–based jewelry engraver J. M. Bergling (1866–1933) created thousands of letter styles, signets, monograms, and ciphers. A noted author on the subjects of lettering and heraldic design, Bergling created books that became standard references of his era. He assembled his first book, Art Monograms and Letters, with the hopes of inspiring other etchers, engravers, sign painters, and artisans. This volume contains selected illustrations from...
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Relearn the beautiful art of cursive handwriting!
In this type, tap and swipe world, you have few opportunities to write in cursive. As a result, your skills diminish. Then, when the critical moment arises and you need to personally write something in your own hand, the results are not very impressive. In fact, they're embarrassingly bad. Written and designed specifically for an adult audience, this book's program for relearning cursive is guaranteed...
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Take a look around and you'll notice beautiful hand lettering is almost everywhere: from shop façades and menus to websites, product packaging, and birthday cards.
In Art Class: Hand Lettering, you'll learn how to master three popular lettering crafts:
• Modern calligraphy
• Brushwork scripts
• Blackboard letter art
Each section is presented by an expert artist, who introduces you to their own aspect of this craft and showcases a range...
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Create beautiful hand lettering with the first book dedicated entirely to the use and mastery of modern brush pens.
Drawing gorgeous letters, words and phrases with a brush pen doesn't have to be difficult! Brush Pen Lettering will show you how to create your own unique style. To help you on your lettering journey, this comprehensive how-to guide includes:
• DIY projects
• Tips and Tricks
• Color Photographs
• Inspiring Ideas
• Step-by-step...
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Get inspired by 60 hand-lettered alphabets and the artists who draw them! This beautiful follow-up to “100 Days of Lettering” helps you master the techniques so you can use them in your own designs.
In his latest hand-lettering guide, designer and illustrator Jay Roeder has compiled a vibrant collection of alphabets that will have you racing for your pens, markers, and sketchbooks. He explains everything you need to know to create each set of...
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This practical guide is perfect for those looking to try this ancient art form for the first time!
In this book, Japanese master artist Shozo Koike reveals the simple secrets of Sumi-e, offering step-by-step instructions with clear photographs and online video tutorials showing you how to paint 18 traditional subjects.
Sumi-e is the meditative Japanese form of ink painting taught by Zen Buddhist monks to encourage mindfulness and an awareness of...
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A treasure trove of lettering styles and decorative elements, this handy reference offers an abundance of eye-catching alphabets, numerals, ribbons, borders, flowers, banners, and other easy-to-trace embellishments. With this guide, it's easy to add a personal touch-humorous, dramatic, or romantic-to any handwritten message or meditative journal.
Hundreds of ornaments, all of them hand-drawn by the author, include dozens of alphabets and numerals....
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Practice makes perfect!It's no secret that improving your Spencerian penmanship requires practice. Unfortunately, Platt Rogers Spencer published less than 30 Spencerian practice sentences. That's why this helpful workbook offers over 180 pages of all-new phrases and sentences for you to refine your lettering.Across the top of each page is carefully composed Spencerian lettering by penman Schin Loong. Below the sample sentence is line after line of...
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Paint the classic subjects that inspired ancient Chinese masters.
This book introduces the venerable art of painting with ink on rice paper using traditional techniques developed over a thousand years ago. It is ideal for a beginner hoping to practice a large variety of techniques and subjects.
With this practical guide, you will learn to paint:
• Towering landscapes
• The elegant Four Gentlemen
• Plants like bamboo, orchids, plum blossoms,...
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Learn or improve your pointed pen calligraphy with this easy-to-use workbook. This workbook is a great way to practice muscle memory of this script. Copperplate Calligraphy, a traditional pointed pen script developed in 16th century England, is what modern calligraphy is based on. This workbook contains traditional calligraphy guidelines that includes; ascender lines, waistlines, baselines, X-height, descender depth lines and slant lines. Each letter...
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Initiation à la calligraphie, du Moyen-ge à nos jours.
Savez-vous que vous pouvez transformer votre vie grâce à la belle écriture ?
Depuis les débuts de l'écriture, l'art de la calligraphie s'est invité dans la culture des peuples du monde entier. Chaque civilisation a trouvé ses lettres de noblesse dans la magie de la belle écriture, quelle que soit sa religion, pour honorer les Dieux.
La calligraphie est telle une respiration méditative,...
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Folder 5: 14 pages of calligraphy in graphite and 24 pages of calligraphy in pen and ink over graphite showing accurate position (without woodcut prints) on each page, 26 x 19 cm. German text is taken from various poems that are printed in their entirety at the end of the final publication.
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Beginner's guide to materials and techniques to learn calligraphy, with projects. Includes instructional DVD.
How to use this book -- Tools and supplies -- Making marks -- Foundational hand -- Proportion, color, and ornament -- Uncial hand and illumination -- Gothic hand -- Italic hand -- Brushwork and gilding -- Calligraphy and modern methods of copying.
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"A Beginner's Guide to Chinese Brush Painting teaches this ancient art form in an easy-to-understand way - no prior experience necessary! As one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world, Chinese brush painting has been used for thousands of years to create images that harness the imagination, and capture the inner spirit of a subject - be it an animal, landscape or tree. All you need for this simple, but beautiful, art form is black...
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